I have a very relevant question --- This SEARCH FOR EXTRA TERRESTIAL INTELLIGENCE --- IS THIS PROJECT BEING FUNDED BY PRIVATE ORGANIZATIONS, OR BY OUR TAX DOLLARS ?
As far as I know, it's mostly "Your Tax Dollars at Work", but RA would know better.
If there's one thing conservatives and liberals can agree upon, it's that scientific research is a waste of money. They'll split hairs over whether two trillion dollars in handouts and sinecures should increase by 6.04% or 6.07% in the sixth-to-next budget cycle, but bellow in shared outrage over some reporter's list of wasteful government projects, nine-tenths of which are peer-reviewed research projects they don't understand, and which together add up to almost a million dollars.